Jackie Speier: “One area I am concerned with regarding the SVC program is the ability of the special victims lawyer to operate…”

I rise this afternoon to hold this Special Order on a very important issue. It is an issue about abortion access in the military. I thank my colleagues for joining me and elevating their voices on the experience of our troops who are…

Please provide a brief summary of actions taken so far to implement each IRC recommendation that has been tasked to the services.

I thank the gentlewoman for her service then and for her service now. Her comments about young servicewomen just out of high school or college, who find themselves pregnant and seek an abortion, reminds me of a story that I heard at a base…

It pains me, as I am sure it pains many of us, to hear these stories, but they are real stories.